OSWEGO — The Oswego women’s hockey team took their inaugural weekend on the road and walked away with two dominating wins over King’s College and Wilkes University. The Lakers would net a total of 15 goals and would get back on the bus back to Oswego conceding only one. Junior Eryn Stewart who contributed with three goals and three assists on the weekend. The Lakers will travel to Buffalo this meeting for a double-header against the Bengals.
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Women’s Hockey falls to Morrisville
OSWEGO, NY — Women’s Hockey battled Morrisville Friday evening in another tightly contested conference match up. The Mustangs came away with a 2-0 victory over the Lakers to obtain their tenth win of the season. This would be the third time this season that Oswego has been shutout and second time in conference. Morrisville got on the scoreboard in the first period and then the third period as they got goals past senior Rachael Farmer. The goalie had 28 saves on the night in the lost. The Lakers failed to capitalize on the power play as Morrisville did net one while on the man advantage. Oswego looks to reset as the team welcomes in Potsdam who is coming off a 3-2 win over Buffalo State on the road. The Bears, along with Morrisville and Oswego, are all tied for 2nd place in the NEWHL with 15 points as Cortland sits just one point back with a total of 14. Puck drop is set for 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon in the Marano Campus Center.
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Oswego State Baseball Gets Set For Brockport
OSWEGO, N.Y. — Oswego State Baseball looks to extend their ten game win streak in a home doubleheader Saturday, April 24th at 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. against Brockport. Oswego is 11-1 (7-1) and their only loss comes to Brockport in a 14-2 loss in game two of a doubleheader at Brockport on April 3rd, the Lakers took game one 7-2. Brockport enters Saturday at 13-2 (7-1) and the Golden Eagles are tied with Oswego for first place in the SUNYAC West. The two teams look to be contenders heading into the SUNYAC Championship.
Ryan Enos led the Laker offense in the doubleheader against Brockport going 3-5 with two doubles, 2 RBIs, and a run, and Enos also leads the SUNYAC in RBIs with 20. Kyle Lauria is also towards the top of the RBI category in the conference, as the former SUNYAC Player of the Week ranks third in the conference with 17 RBIs to go along with his .364 average. Paul Tammaro leads Oswego and is second in the SUNYAC with a .467 batting average, and has 11 hits in his last 19 at bats. Kieran Finnegan picked up the win on the mound in game one against the Golden Eagles going four innings and allowing two hits and a run while striking out three. Finnegan’s 1.50 ERA is good for second best in the SUNYAC, and Finnegan also has ten strikeouts through twelve innings to his name.
Brockport comes in on a ten game winning streak of their own, with the game two win over Oswego being the first game of the win streak. Matt O’Dair leads the SUNYAC with a .548 batting average and has a hit in 13 of 14 games. O’Dair was 4-6 with a double, 4 RBIs, and a run in the doubleheader against Oswego, Daniel Delgazio was 5-8 against the Lakers with two doubles, and four runs. James Houlahan is another hitter to look out for on Brockport as he is hitting .444 with 12 RBIs and a home run, but Houlahan struggled against Oswego in his 1-8 day.
A win streak will be broken today as the Golden Eagles and the Lakers look to move head in the standings. Oswego State Baseball takes on Brockport at home on Saturday, April 24th at 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. for a conference doubleheader. WTOP 10 will continue to provide Oswego State fans coverage of the baseball team for the remainder of the 2021 season.
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Women’s LAX spark second half comeback taking down Hawks
OSWEGO, NY- The Lakers battled through some poor weather conditions this Saturday along with having to come from behind to win their first SUNYAC Conference game of the season.Kate McNally would get the Lakers on the board first in the game as she scored with 4:44 seconds into the game. New Paltz would answer back six minutes later as Morgan Atwater would score to tie the game at one. Two minutes later the Hawks would score again as Shannon Brosnan would give the Hawks the lead. The Lakers would answer back as Julia Quirk would tie the game at two right near the end of the first quarter. Morgan Atwater would score her second goal of the game to put New Paltz up 3-2. Sela Wiley would score her 90th career goal of her career to put the Lakers down 5-3. The Lakers would struggle in the second quarter giving up three goals and found themselves in a tough position down 5-3 at half.
In the second half, the Lakers would go on a explosive offensive attack erasing the halftime deficit. Isabella Lembo would cut the deficit to just one with 12:05 left in the third quarter. Shea McConnell would tie the game with 9:32 left in the third. McConnell had a three-goal performance in the third quarter which helped awaken the Lakers offense. Sela Wiley scored her second goal of the game with 9:44 left in the fourth quarter to put the game out of the reach for the Hawks. The Lakers would go on a 8-0 run in the second half as the Hawks had no answers to the Lakers comeback. New Paltz’s goalie Gabrielle Tommasso who played well in the first half only giving up three goals but in the second half she gave up eight goals along with allowing 18 shots. Oswego’s goalie Sarah Kamide cleaned up her performance from the first half and didn’t allow a single goal for the rest of the game.
With the win the Lakers improve to 6-2 on the season and improve their overall record against New Paltz to 15-2. The Lakers are looking for their best record against SUNYAC opponents this season since the 2003 season where they finished 10-8 and going 7-1 within the conference. The Lakers have tied their win total from last year just eight games into the season. Last year the Lakers went 5-4 in the SUNYAC as they will face off against Fredonia on Wednesday, March 29th at Laker Turf Stadium. Lakers look for their first 7-2 start since the 2016 season where they lost to Cortland 19-10 in the SUNYAC Outdoor Championship. The Lakers face off against a Fredonia squad who sits at 5-4 on the season currently where the Blue Devils got beaten up by the Oneonta Red Dragons 17-6 this Saturday. Blue Devils Sophomore Erin Woods reached the 100-point club this weekend against the Red Dragons and she scored four goals in the game. Last season the Lakers defeated the Blue Devils 19-4 and they are 15-10 against the Blue Devils all-time. Oswego hasn’t lost to Fredonia since the 2015 lacrosse season 11-10.
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